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Has Rishi Sunak’s NI deal silenced Tory Eurosceptics?

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Boris Johnson may have criticised the prime minister’s deal on post-Brexit trading in Northern Ireland but a number of formerly staunch Eurosceptic rebels — including Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker — have enthused about Sunak’s success. How is the PM going to manage dissent within his own ranks, or is Eurosceptic opposition crumbling? Plus, what the deal on the new-look protocol - aka the Windsor framework - means in practice for business.


Presented by George Parker, with political correspondent Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe, Ireland correspondent Jude Webber, Brussels correspondent Andy Bounds and special guest former Tory cabinet minister and New Statesman columnist David Gauke.


Produced by Anna Dedhar and Manuela Saragosa. The sound engineer was Breen Turner


News clips: BBC, GB News, Sky


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So the Prime Minister has negotiated a new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland.

0:38.5

But is the revised protocol enough to silence the Eurosceptic voices in his Tory party

0:43.4

and the rest of the country?

0:44.6

Well, it's a mixed bag.

0:46.5

I'm going to find it very difficult to vote for something like this myself

0:49.2

because I believe that we should have done something different

0:53.8

and Brexit is nothing if we in this country don't do things differently.

0:58.1

We were sold yesterday a packet of nonsense

1:02.7

and my only hope is that there are now going to be enough people looking at this

1:07.6

that it will unravel over the next week as people realise it isn't as it was presented.

1:13.4

This is an important moment for me personally

1:16.1

because I can authentically say it's done it.

1:19.3

If only everybody will read the text

1:21.8

think seriously about what an amazing achievement this is.

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